Documentary photography

Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle both significant and relevant to history and historical events and everyday life. It is typically covered in professionalphotojournalism, or real life reportage, but it may also be an amateur, artistic, or academic pursuit.

History

The term document applied to photography antedates the mode or genre itself. Photographs meant to accurately describe otherwise unknown, hidden, forbidden, or difficult-to-access places or circumstances. The earliest daguerreotype and calotype "surveys" of the ruins of the Near East, Egypt, and the American wilderness areas. Nineteenth century archaeologist John Beasly Greene, for example, traveled to Nubia in the early 1850s to photograph the major ruins of the region; One early documentation project was the French Missions Heliographiques organized by the official Commission des Monuments historiques to develop an archive of France's rapidly disappearing architectural and human heritage; the project included such photographic luminaries as Henri Le Secq, Edouard Denis Baldus, and Gustave Le Gray.

Documentary photography

Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle both significant and relevant to history and historical events and everyday life. It is typically covered in professionalphotojournalism, or real life reportage, but it may also be an amateur, artistic, or academic pursuit.

History

The term document applied to photography antedates the mode or genre itself. Photographs meant to accurately describe otherwise unknown, hidden, forbidden, or difficult-to-access places or circumstances. The earliest daguerreotype and calotype "surveys" of the ruins of the Near East, Egypt, and the American wilderness areas. Nineteenth century archaeologist John Beasly Greene, for example, traveled to Nubia in the early 1850s to photograph the major ruins of the region; One early documentation project was the French Missions Heliographiques organized by the official Commission des Monuments historiques to develop an archive of France's rapidly disappearing architectural and human heritage; the project included such photographic luminaries as Henri Le Secq, Edouard Denis Baldus, and Gustave Le Gray.

The millennium camera aims to make a 1000 year exposure of Lake Tahoe from four distinct vantage points. Ryland West...Keats says the project falls somewhere between documentaryphotography and surveillance photography—noting that when someone sees a camera it often has an effect on their behavior ... Tags. cameras Photography climate change Technology ... ....

The four documentaries showcased in the exhibition space were all crafted at a later stage in Lyon’s career ... Though Lyon focused on photography for the majority of the 1960s, he moved toward the medium of documentary later in his life....

an installation in DeerfieldNaturePark; documentary videos and photography on a website that allows community members to contribute; conversations and connections between communities; puppeteering, dance, music and oral history and more ... story telling, photography or video....

This year’s Deutsche Borsephotography prize shortlist is a considered choice of four artists whose approaches draw on documentary, archival appropriation and conceptualism ... The contrast between the two – and indeed all four contenders – highlights the continuing dilemma of a prize – and indeed all photography prizes – not based on generic styles....

Now twice the size, at 900 sq ...Martine Franck. a Retrospective (6 November-10 February 2019) presents 140 works, encompassing documentary images of social and political movements, portraits of painters and writers, and travel photography, including a monastery in Nepal and a temple in Kyoto. “Both Martine and Henri were Buddhists,” Sire says ... ....

What’s your photography and documentary background? My “photographer creation myth” began as a high-schooler wandering around the woods in Vermont exploring. Photography remained a means of exploration, mostly in nature, until late in my college years when I crossed paths with a teacher that inspired me to begin photographing people....

After six years of shooting, interviewing and editing local filmmaker and photographer Glenn Hall's "Dark Water" documentary is ready for the screen ... He previously worked as the director of photography on "The RotundaProject," a locally-made documentary about the collaborative nature of the west Kentucky music scene....

“My aim is not to produce art photography, but simply to reflect Istanbul as it really is,” he said, regarding himself as a documentary photographer as opposed to an artist. I believe that photography is a form of magic by which a moment of experience is seized for transmission to future generations,” he said....